Psychoanalytic Technique and the Creation of Analytic Patients by Arnold Rothstein Madison, CT:  International Universities Press, 1995,  xviii + 137 pp., $27.50. The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class, and Culture Through a Psychoanalytic Lens by Neil Altman Hillsdale, NJ:  The Analytic Press, 1995,  xx + 188 pp., $29.95. The Police-Mental Health Partnership: A Community-Based Response to Urban Violence by Steven Marans, et al. New Haven, CT:  Yale University Press, 1995,  xiv + 147 pp., $18.50.

For those psychoanalysts who despair of their diminishing practices, the three books under review offer a note of optimism and challenge. They expand the boundaries of psychoanalysis and suggest means of reaching hitherto unthought of or untreated patient populations in public and private practice alike.

Arnold Rothstein shows how analysts are missing opportunities for the creation of analytic patients within private practice. Neil Altman describes his experiences working in an inner-city clinic (the Bronx in New York City) and integrates social theory and clinical practice. Steven Marans and his colleagues describe the Child Development-Community Policing Program in New Haven, Connecticut, initiated in 1991 to deal with children who have been the victims of, or witnessed, violent crimes or who themselves engage in criminal or antisocial behavior. Although Marans's book is not strictly psychoanalytic, it details a brave attempt at collaboration and suggests possibilities for the dissemination of information about child development and its usefulness to the police and to other public agencies, and the positive effect of a collaboration between mental health practitioners and public